xxxv, 315 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 21 cm

Today, we refer to Christianity's conquest of the West as a triumph. Nixey offers a history of the rise of Christianity in the classical world that focuses on its terrible cost, in terms of violence and dogmatic intolerance, that helped bring upon the dark ages. She shows how, in an orgy of destruction, Jesus's followers helped to pitch Western civilization into a thousand-year-long decline

Previously published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018, c2017

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-303) and index

Prologue: A beginning -- Introduction: An ending -- The invisible army -- The battleground of demons -- Wisdom is foolishness -- "On the small number of martyrs" -- These deranged men -- The most magnificent building in the world -- To despise the temples -- How to destroy a demon -- The reckless ones -- To drink from the cup of devils -- To cleanse the error of demons -- Carpe diem -- They that forsake the way of God -- To obliterate the tyranny of joy -- "Merciful savagery" -- "A time of tyranny and crisis."

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